Books & Films

Hospitality

Babette’s Feast

Set in a small, remote, austere Danish seaside town in the mid-19th century. Two devout daughters of a Lutheran minister devote their lives to continuing...

Weapons of the Spirit

The moving story of a mountain community in Nazi-occupied France in which 5,000 Jews were taken in and sheltered by 5,000 Christians. Pierre Sauvage —...

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

By Dorothy Day

The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage.

Reaching Out

By Henri Nouwen

With the clarity and depth characteristic of the classics, this spiritual bestseller lays out a perceptive and insightful plan for living a spiritual life and...

The Company of Strangers

By Parker Palmer

In this award-winning book, Parker J. Palmer offers a revitalizing understanding of the notion of public life and shows how profound spiritual seeking leads us...

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

By Philip Hallie

During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi...

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition

By Christine D. Pohl

Making Room revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality today.